Given how long it takes these days for a big-budget, effects-heavy TV series to make it to the screen, we probably don’t talk enough about how many shows are still recovering from the various circumstances that ground show business to a halt in recent years. Alien: Earth ’s production was first stalled by COVID and then by multiple Hollywood strikes, and while it’s impossible for the audience to know whether those delays affected the finished product, surely the impact wasn’t nonexistent.

You get why I’m mentioning this, right? It’s because the way this first Alien: Earth season ends is a little … odd. Nearly everything that worked well in the first half of season one has remained strong in the second half: the darkly comic machinations of the monsters, the thoughtful examination of

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